Government invests €56m in grassroots sports facilities

A massive €56m investment in grassroots sports facilities announced by the Government this week will help produce and inspire a new generation of sports stars, Irish Olympian Lizzie Lee said.

The Leevale athlete, who competed for Ireland in the Rio Olympics marathon and who is preparing as part of the Irish team for the European Cross Country championships in Slovakia on Sunday week, said such large-scale funding has a massive snowball effect, especially on “Cinderella sports” like athletics.

“When you invest on this scale at this level, people see results, they see things happening.